Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach is a relatively large coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of California. With a population of 197,575 people and 42 constituent neighborhoods, Huntington Beach is the 23rd largest community in California.

Huntington Beach home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but Huntington Beach real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Huntington Beach is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.52% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Huntington Beach is a city of sales and office workers, professionals and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Huntington Beach who work in sales jobs (14.56%), management occupations (13.56%) and office and administrative support (12.76%).

Also of interest is that Huntington Beach has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One thing noticeable about Huntington Beach, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That’s because Huntington Beach is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Huntington Beach a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

Huntington Beach is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Huntington Beach Information and Demographics

The education level of Huntington Beach ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Huntington Beach, 40.19% have at least a bachelor’s degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor’s degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Huntington Beach in 2010 was $42,196, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $168,784 for a family of four. However, Huntington Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Huntington Beach is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Huntington Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huntington Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Huntington Beach also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.74% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Huntington Beach include German, Irish, English and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Huntington Beach’s cultural character, accounting for 16.61% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Huntington Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.

Most Expensive Huntington Beach Neighborhoods:

1. Pacific Coast Hwy / Seapoint Ave
2. Huntington Harbour
3. Pacific Coast Hwy / 17th St
4. Surfside
5. Pacific Coast Hwy
6. City Center
7. Huntington St / Memphis Ave
8. Brookhurst St / Pacific Coast Hwy
9. Brookhurst St / Atlanta Ave
10. Adams Ave / Lawson Ln